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Launch event invitation

Source: Hagley Museum and LibraryThursday 5 December 2013
1.15pm
University of Leeds

You are invited to attend the launch of The Enterprise of Culture, a three-year pan-European collaborative research project investigating the international structures and connections in the fashion industry since 1945.

Featuring talks from a panel of European researchers alongside fashion professionals, curators and archivists from the V&A, the Centre for Business History (Stockholm) and the M&S Company Archive, this event offers an insight into the business history of fashion — and an exciting glimpse of what we’ll be wearing in the future.

The event includes:

  • Registration and lunch reception at the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
  • Introduction to The Enterprise of Culture: International Structures and Connections in the Fashion Industry since 1945
  • Sessions on transnational fashion, trendsetting and business archives
  • Visit to the M&S Company Archive on the University campus and bespoke exhibition Sustainable Fashion: Next Generation created by University of Leeds students
  • Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s inaugural lecture The Colour Revolution – tracing the relationship of colour and commerce, from haute couture to interior design – at Leeds University Business School
  • Evening drinks reception

Open to anyone with an interest in the business history of fashion, this event is particularly aimed at academics (e.g. in history, business, fashion), post-graduate students, curators, archivists, fashion designers, textile-related organisations and wider public audiences.

It is possible to book either for the full event, starting from 1.15pm, or for the evening open lecture only (at 6pm).

The event is free but places are limited. To book or for further information, please contact Fiona Blair: [email protected] or telephone +44(0)113 343 1910

This event is organised in conjunction with the M&S Company Archive.